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Need to fix the chairs. Waaaay too bulky.
This still needs a background painted in. And the card seems to be making the paint go weird, especially the black :(
Aiming to do a finished painting everyday this week. It WILL happen!
Worked from photos and observations.
Moving away from maps now. I want to focus more on the people you find around Soho, and different landmarks.
I went in to do a few observations and experimented a bit with them. Here's a few little pictures.
Sorry, SUCH a bad photo but it was too big to scan in my little scanner.
Have decided to make two maps. One on Soho nightlife, e.g bars and clubs, and one on independent eateries, namely coffee/tea shops. Both will be mainly based around Old Compton Street.
Went out on a busy Saturday night and took a few photos of Old Compton Street on my friend's camera, and now I've started experimenting on different sufaces and making an rough a1 map planning the different locations of the places I want to use.
Anyway, here's a little picture of G.A.Y on an old Graze Box.
If anyone knows of any good places to drink or eat in the area, please let me know!
It's been a while since I last updated, but here's a few bits and bobs...
Some sketches and paintings based on the first few photos of Soho.
Sheeta's hand went a little wrong, so I had to give her a stump...
Been making a start on my last ever uni project, which is a bit scary.
I basically want to make three huge maps of different things to do in Soho, but they'll be more large scale art pieces than maps... if that makes sense!!
And why Soho? Simply because I know it better than anywhere else in London, and it has so much to do i.e bars, pubs, clubs, shops, restaurants etc in such a condensed area.
Anyway, I went to Soho today to start getting research photos. The majority turned out to be blurry, but here's a few I managed to salvage...
So for professional practice we were set a brief to make a personal book, using no pencils or pens, in a day.
I based mine on everything I've lost in the last year. It's a pretty impressive list if I do say so myself...
Here's a few of my more impressive losses...
FINALLY finished. Thank god! I decided to print and bind the book myself as I didn't trust sending it off. So I got some surprisingly nice paper from Rymans and after figuring out the page positions of photoshop, binded it together with the help of my housemate's specialist book binding theads. Thanks Alex!!
Anyways, here it is.
Debating adding party hats...
